A check
Which of these tells you something has become a compulsion rather than a genuine question?
It is about religionIt makes you anxiousYou have already had a clear answer and you are asking again for the feelingSomebody else told you it was silly
Not quite
Compulsions are defined by what they do, not by what they are about. A question you have already had answered, asked again to get relief rather than information, is doing the work of a compulsion no matter how reasonable it sounds out loud.